12 Jan
2017
12 Jan
'17
6:49 p.m.
I agree with Terry. It's not just the initial cost, but the shipping,
blood, sweat, tears, and pushing my mind, spine, etc to the limits.
I don't usually put over a few thousand into one toy, but have gone way
past that for packages.
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:37 PM, Rich Cini <rich.cini at verizon.net> wrote:
Hmmm. Well, in 1985 I spent something like $6500 or
$7000 on a complete
Mac 512k system. Ok, the box itself was only $2795 or something like that
but it was all of the other stuff like the software, printer, disk drive,
modem, numeric keyboard that added up. I still have the receipt somewhere
in my office.
Rich Cini
Sent from my iPad
On Jan 12, 2017, at 8:55 PM, Jon Elson <elson
at pico-systems.com> wrote:
Well, in 1986, I paid something like $6700 for a KA630-AA (UVax-II CPU
board).
I got an Andromeda disk controller (MFM hard disk
+ floppy) and ran
pirated VMS off a 40 MB drive. Slowly upgraded it all to a
VaxStation II,
then VaxStation II GPX (color graphics), added a bunch of tape drives.
I kept it running until 2007, when the hard drive croaked. By that time
I had a
cast-off SCSI 4 GB drive.
Jon